The Dillon herald. (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, June 06, 1918, Page Page Eight, Image 8
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ridge, came a stream of galloping
horses.
"It's the cavalry," some one ubouted,
but soon I made out limbers and
field guns.
They galloped past us going -like
mad, took up a position to our right,
swung into position, unlimbered, and
in two minutes were blazing away.
It was a thrilling sight.
In going forward we went around
the end of the larger wood in front
of us, over ground that was torn to
bits by the heavy shellfire that had
Just preceded, over another edge,!1
across a valley, and under the crest
of a hill. And here we found the
tanks going over the top of the hill
to take up their position. At this
point we were still about a mile
from the front line.
At this place 1 opened up an aid
post under the crest of the hill to
take care of what wounded came in
while we were getting into position.
I looked back across the valley we
had just traversed.
6hrapnel was bursting in the air,
shells were whizzing overhead and
oar guns behind us were belching;
forth the fire. The noise was deafen
ing.
A railroad ran through the valley.
and an engine pulling a couple of.
flat cars was going by. A couple of I
soldiers were sitting on the rear |
truck swinging their feet. A shell
burst on the track and only missed i
the last car about 15 yards. Neither!
man was hit and the train went!
bllthly on.
By this time it was getting along
toward evening, the sun was sinking
in the west, and finally went down in
a great ball of fire. At the time, I
remember, I noticed its color. It was
blood red and had a sinister look.
Was it my imagination, or might it
have been a premonition?
The drumming of the guns continued.
twilight gradually deepened
into night, the singalers stopped
their wig-wagging and took up their
flash signals, a fog^dropped down on
us and put the lights out of business
and when we left to go forward
under the cover of darkness they,
were busy putting out their tele- 1
phone lines?signalers and runners .
don't have an easy time.
Behind us a shell landed in an ammunition
dump and it went up with
a roar; then the rifle ammunition
started going off like a great bunch
of firecrackers, and great tongues
of flame lit up the sky.
It is reported that the Germans
had broken through our line and we
were to counter-attack in the morning.
We got Into positions without
a single casualty. I opened an aid
post in an old dugout and settled
down to sleep until morning. Vou
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Bleep under such conditions, but iji
had been up since 5:30, had tramped
about six or seven miles, had had a .s
rather trying day and was dog tired, j i
So 1 settled down on the rough j1
plank floor and was soon asleep. I'I
must have been asleep a couple of , <
hours when a runner came from .
headquarters and told us we were to 11
move off immediately. I looked at, 1
my watch and it was 1:30 a. m. on'1,
the second day. |s
We went back to the railroad, fol- | i
lowed it around to a position some I
six miles to the north of us, landing j*
there about 4 in the morning and i
flopping down on the floor of some'
abandoned huts to wait further or-It
ders. Our orders came along about I
9 o'clock. We marched up across the, j
open praraie, the sun shining, and it t
was really hot. ^ jl
Just like some of the warm days!:
we get the last of March at home. In j1
going forward it was necessary forji
us to march 75 yards in front of j i
three batteries of field guns. There!
rre six guns to a battery. They shoot j
an 18-pound shell and while we were|.
there each gun was shooting twice j
to the minute. You can imagine thei
racket when I tell you that t"he discharge
of one gun can be heard
about four miles. In addition the
Boche was trying to knock out this
battery and he was dropping his six-,:
inch shells a little too close for com-h
fort.
Then I made a lovely mistake. 1'
was to establish an aid post near1
battalion headquarters and went j,
blithely on when I met a company;
commander -and asked him where to ?
go.
"Back there about a quarter of a }
mile," he replied. "This is the front |
center company. If you keep on in I
the direction you are going you are |
going up over that ridge and Fritz!
will be waiting for you with a ma- j
chine gun."
So my sergeant and orderly and
myself didnt waste any time in clear-I
ing. On the way back I found a gal- j
Ion can full of water, got into a cor-i
rugated iron shelter and had a wash j
and shave. It certainly felt good, ij
don't believe I had washed for 36 j
hours. It was warm and bright. ij
[could look out or my shelter and see,
jour support lines digging themselves:
in several hundred yards away. The!
cannon fire ceased, the machine
guns settled down to an occasional
fitiful burst and it was midday of a.
beautiful spring day.
A couple of patridges flew over me. j
What did they know or care about!
all this noise and racket, and men 1
getting up and killing each other?
Along about 3 o'clock things began
to live up again. In the meantime
headquarters had been established in
n Siinlrf>n rnnsi u'ith ha nbc ahnnf 1 ^
feet high on either side (later this
cut was half filled with dead.) My
aid post was a dugout nearby ?nd
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gradually things got hotter and hot- 't
:er. | i
Our wen had dug themselves in J d
md were popping away with their ir
rifles. The field batteries behind us J t
were putting up a barrage, air-.t
planes were circling overhead, both j
juis and the Germans'. The Ger-; t
nans put up a counter barrage, the a
nachiue guns were going like mad. \
1 was standing with the colonel on i
i little rise of ground above the <
>unken road when the Germans
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iorth ot us. They could be plainly t
seen pouring over the ridge in close t
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'i hen the tanks came up and you t
should have seen them run! (Just;;
like rabbits! The tanks retired; the i
Ltoches reformed and came at it j
igain. They tell me that certain 1
places our men withstood 15 succes- ]
sive attacks and that the Germans i
went down in thousands. One Wels- ]
a.nan told me that his gun accounted ;
lor <"5 in three minutes during one
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Machine gun bullets were pipping i
.luuud me, the shellfire was getting ]
hotter and even though it was a won-i]
ilerful sight to watch 1 decided "dis-11
L-rction was the beiter part of valor," ] j
ar something like that, and got down i|
in my dugout. ||
1 was sitting there smoking a cig- i
a.ette when my orderly came down
and said 1 was being relieved and 1
v. us io go back with tlie ambulance.;;
Fifteen minutes later the man that i
relieved me was captured. But 1 amjj
gv.t.ug ahead of my story.
I want back to the advanced i l
dressing station through the hottest;;
shellfire 1 ever experienced. More;;
than once 1 went down on my face |
when a shell burst and the pieces |
went wmzzing over my head. I spent'
the night in a mind village where theii
advanced dressing station was locat-|i
ed. and all night they shelled it to
blazes. It was remarkable how
few casualities we had.
About 11 o'clock the morning of j
the third day a shell blew in the side
of our post, but luckily no one was
hurt. We stuck to it until about 4
in the afternoon, when we saw our
men retiring over a ridge in front
of us keeping up a continuous machine
gun and rifle fire, and we beat
it back to another villa0e and open- i
ed another post.
About l(t o'clock on the morning;
of the fourth day Lord Thyme, my,
colonel when I was with the battal-1
ion, stumbled into the shack where
I was sitting. He looked like a ghost. ;
He had lost his hat, his face was
covered with a four day's beard, the
sweat had traced tracks in the du?t 1
from the forehead to his chin. His ;
sleeve was torn and bloody and he
had a gash in his arm where he had
been struck by a piece of flying shell
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tattalion is all gone.The sunken road soi
b filled with dead?mostly Huns, an
lamn 'em. The line broke on the in
ight, we were surrounded, and at ha
he last we were fighting back and $1
>ack. Only 30 of us got away."
So we knew the Boche had broken vie
hrough to our right and our left. Mi
ind it was a question of how long it Tr
vould be before we, too, were sur'ounded
but we wanted to stick it
.ut as long as we could.
But not more than an hour later a Tr
nedical officer rushed in from one of VV
he battalions and between gasps for
jreath told us the Germans were on
he edge of the village, had shot him
hrough the sleeve with a machine fir
;un bullet (luckily that was all) ne
ind for us to beat it. in
Let me tell you we did. I threw* pa
ny knapsack and made the first th
hundred yards in nothing flat and to
then settled down to a walk because
[ was so out of breath I couldn't run en
my further. re
The incessant scream and crash ar
ind bang of the shells kept up and p.
the rat-tat-tat of the machine guns
never ceased. The village immediate- T1
ly behind us was a seething mass of of
brick dust, smoke, flame and burst- nt
ing shells. We were told on our way
back that a stand was to be made be- m
bind the village, so we circled around it
it and took up a position about a en
half-mile behind it at a cross roads. Sc
rnfortunately for us, a six inch w
Ury came into action about 50 yards
from us and aside from the harrass- j
ing effect of the terrible noise, batteries
are always unpleasant neighbors.
as they invite shell fire. We ,s'
stopped here until about 10 o'clock
at night, when we were ordered to
retire.
There was no way of getting out
the wounded that we had collected, ^
so the stretcher bearers carried C<J
them on their stitchers for six or w
seven miles. In fact, we all helped,
?nd when we arrived at our destina- tu
tion at 4 n'rlnck in the mornine of! w
(he fifth day we were all in. 01
I could hardly move, but after tv/j ol
big bowls of hot tea and some hard at
tack I turned in on the floor and ar
slept like a hog for hours, when we th
moved to another place and opened T
a dressing station. m
On the way a German airplane le
came down and crushed near the ol
road, but neither the pilot nor ob- la
server were hurt. They were a cou- hi
pie of rather neat looking lads p<
about 19 years old.
And so it went for three days -st
more, open a dressing station, retire rt
(some-times on the run,) long marches,
very little to eat, except what'I1'
we foraged from abandoned camps.1,1
and dumps, dog tired, sleeping when la
and where we could, and finally the is
division was relieved. We now saw fi
our first civilians, and last night I v<
slept in a bed. It wasn't much of tl
a bed, and the mattress was full of d'
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Did you ever read Robert W. Ser- o
e's description of the retreat from E
>ns. Well, that's the way I felt:
amp, tramp, the grim road, the
road from Mons to Wipers
I've 'ammered out this ditty with
me bruised and bleeding feet;
amp, tramp, the dim road?
e didn't 'ave no pipers? '
An bellies that were 'oiler was the:
drums we 'ad to bebt. j
The ninth day, sitting around the
e in our mess after the best dinr
we had had in days, the comunding
officer handed me some
pers and said, "Mere is something
at will interest you, Pettit. I want
say we shall be sorry to lose you."
And tfliis is what it was: "Lieutant
Roswell T. Pittit, M. R. C.. is
lieved from duty with the British
my and will proceed to tlje A. E.
. where he will report for duty."
I leave for Paris in the morning,
lis has been a long tale, but half
it hasn't been told. I hope I have
>t strung it out too much.
1 have just been informed that all
y kit had to be burned Jo prevent
failing into ttie bands of the (
leiny. I shall probably want you to
nd me some things from home, but
ill see what I can get here first.
Your son,
ROSWELL.
mil Course lor. Clubwomen at1
Wintlirop.
At the request of the South Carorsa
Federation of Women's Clubs,
inthrop College is offering a short
mrse arranged especially for club
omen.
This course will present an^opporinity
for as serious study as the
omen desire, or Just for attendance
1 the open lectures and the lighter
Teriugs. To many women of the
ate who wish to Berve the home
id community more udeqquately,
lis course will fill a long felt want,
o many others it will mean a rejwing
of youth in living over colge
days for a short while and to
hers still it will mean the first
iste of college life. Something they
id always longed for and made
issiblc in middle life.
Courses in agriculture, art, bird j
lldv. eheniiptrv and hinlncv mir. I
>nt sociological problems, educaon,
English, geography, history,
jme nursing, industrial history,
anuel arts, music parliamentary
tw, physical education, public speak
ig, sewing, surgical dressings and
rst aid will be presented by the
?ry best instructors and lecturers
nit could be secured. The lecturers
uring this short course will be Dr.
. Alphonso Smith, professor of EnPlant
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leparator, churn, run the fa
on even one man will go 1<
ges of city life. A tap of th
barn and out-buildings will
miforts that make farmer, i
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to keep the boys and girls tl
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without it.
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lish, United States Mural Academy;
lr. Liberty Hyde Bailey, formerly of
lornell University; Mr. . B. Cooke,
r United States Consular Service in
Ireece; Dr. D. D. Wallace, profeaeor _
History in Wofford College; Mrs.
211a Flagg Young, former Sept.
Ihicago City Schools; Miss Ida M.
arbell, author and publicist; Dr.
lenry E. Jackson of the National
lureau of Education and Dr. Anna
ioward Shaw.
In the evenings there will be various
entertainments and offerings
or pleasure and recreation. The De- J
eraux Players who charmed and de- f
ighted the college a short time ago
lave been secured to present two
>lays during this short course. The
swimming pool will be open to the
pupils and the time will prove all
.00 short to enjoy the numerous attractions
of this lovely campus.
The whole expense of this short
course will be under $20.00, matriculation
fee $3.00, board $7.00 per
week or $1.25 per day for a shorter
period.
AH who attend are urged to arrive
on July 8th. The following day
the club women will be formally
welcomed in the college auditorium
by Professor Johnson and a response
by the President of the South
Carolina Federation of Women's
Clubs will be made in behalf of the
club women. The course will close
July 20th giving twelve days for the
session.
Clubwomen intending to take advantage
of this opportunity may
communicate with Miss Lelia A.
Kussell of Rock Hill or *lf those interested
will communicate with me 1
will be glad to give any information
and furnish them with a catalog
of the course.
MRS. JOE P. LANE,
Chin. Pee Dee Dls.
Dillon, S. C.
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Mclntyre Has Thrilling Times.
Latta Observer
John Cross Mclntyre, son of Mr.
and'Mrs. W. M. Mclntyre, was in the
city a few days last week on a short
furlough, direct from the battlefields
of France.
Young Mclntyre has been in the
merchant marine for the past six
years and is an experienced seaman.
Last November his ship was sunk by
a submarine and he, with others, was
afloat for 13 hours being finally
picked up and landed at some foreign
port. He made his way to the
front and has been with the boys
over there for the past three months.
Despite the hardships through
which he has been he looks and
seems well and has many experiences
to relate. This is his first visit
home since he joined the merchant
marine and his many friends were
delighted to have him among them
again.
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